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 1. (a) Sanyasi revolt begins in 1760. Kol revolt begins in 1831-32. Santhal revolt begins in 1855- 56 in Bihar. The Mopala revolt uprises in 1921 in Kerala. 

2. (a) Raja Rammohan Roy founded the Atmiya Sabha. Devendranath Tagore founded the Tatva Bodhini Sabha. Vivekanand founded the Ram Krishna Mission. Atmaram Pandurang founded the Prarthana Samaj. 

3. (b) Warren Hastings was the first Governor General of Bengal as per the Regulating Act of 1773. 

4. (d) Treaty of Srirangapatnam held in 1792. Treaty of Sangoli held in 1816. Treaty of Mangalore held in 1784. Treaty of Rajghat held in 1806. 

5. (a) Abolition of Sati Pratha took place during the period of Lord Bentinck in 1928. Doctrine of Lapse regulated by Lord Dalhousie. Local SelfGovernment took place during the period of Lord Rippon. The partition of Bengal announced in 1905 in the period of Lord Curzon. 

6. (c) Warren Hastings was the first Governor General of India. Lord Canning wasthe first Viceroy of India. 

7. (a) Hindu College, Calcutta was established in 1817, three Adam’s reports on education in Bengal and Bihar in 1835, 1836 and in 1838. Wood’s dispatch by Charles wood in 1854, Calcutta university was established in 1857.

8. (c) First Anglo-Burmese war was fought in 1824. First Anglo-Afghan war was fought in 1838–42. First Anglo-Maratha war was fought in 1775–82. Second Anglo-Mysore war was fought in1780–84. 

9. (a) Macaulay’s minute on education in 1835. Charles Wood’s despatch in 1854. Hunter Commission on India Education in 1882. Sargent’s plan on Education in 1944. 

10. (b) The system in which Land alloted to a big landlords was called Jagirdari system. The system in which land alloted to revenue farmers of rent collectors was Zamindari system. The land alloted to each peasant with the right to sublet, mortgage transfer was called Ryotwari system. The settlement made at village level was called Mahalwarisystem. 

11. (a) The Portuguese captured Goa in 1510, except this statement, all the statements are correct. 

12. (c) Wood’s dispatch of 1854 states that the aim of education was the promotion of literacy among the people using English as medium of language. 

13. (a) Murshid Quli Khan introduced the system of revenue farming in Bengal. 

14. (d) These states were annexed by Dalhousie in the sequence of: Satara – 1848, Sambhalpur – 1849, Jhansi – 1853, Nagpur – 1854 

15. (b) Cornwallis was the first Governor General who established a regular force on the British pattern in India.

16. (d) A law member was to be appointed but not an Indian. First law member appointed under this Charter Act, 1833 was Lord Macaulay. 

17. (c) Second Anglo-Sikh war (1848 – 49) Second Anglo-Maratha war (1803 –05) Third Anglo-Mysore war – (1890 – 92) Anglo-Nepal war – (1814 – 16) 

18. (c) John Eliot Bethune was the founding father of Bethune College. Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay was one of the first graduate of Calcutta University. Raja Rammohan Roy’s campaign against Sati led to the enactment of a law to ban Sati (1829). 

19. (b) Treaty of Surat took place in 1775. Treaty of Bargaon took place in 1779. Treaty of Salbai held in 1782. Treaty of Purander took place in 1776. 

20. (d) Under the Ryotwari system, every registered holder of land was recognised as its proprietor and paid direct to government. The registered agreement called pattas were given to the Ryots to recognise their ownership rights. 

21. (c) The religion of Brahmo Samaj at the beginning was known to be Vedantism. The purpose of Brahmo Samaj was to purify Hinduism and to preach Monotheism. The Brahmo Samaj also tried to incorporate the best aspects of modern western thought. 

22. (d) During the period of Colonial rule in India, the drain of wealth took place through various forms, main among them were; Home charges, civil and military charges and interest on foreign capital investments. 

23. (d) The Battle of Plassey held on 23rd June, 1757. The Battle of Ambur held on 1749. The Battle of Buxar held on 22nd Oct. 1764. The Battle of Wandiwash held on 22nd Jan, 1760. 

24. (b) The founder of Maratha states was Shivaji. The founder of Hyderabad states was Chinkilich Khan. The founder of Bengal states was Murshid Kuli Khan. The founder of Awadh states was Sayadat Khan. 

25. (c) Lord Cornwallis was the father of civil service. Warren Hastings was the father of Judicial Services. 

26. (b) Vernacular Press Act associated with Lord Litton. Widow Remarriage Act associated with Lord Canning. Public work department associated with Lord Dalhouise. Fort William College associated with Lord Welleseley. 

27. (d) The total amount of the land revenue to be collected was rupees four crores is not a feature of the permanent land settlement. 

28. (d) During the fourth Anglo-Mysore war, Mysore was not completely amalgamated in the British empire.

 29. (a) At the beginning of British rule in India, fortified factory meant to protect the trading place where officers of the company worked. 

30. (d) Mahalwari settlement belongs to Halt Mackenzie, permanentsettlement of Bengal belongs to Cornwallis, Ryotwari settlement belongs to Thomas Munro, permanent settlement of Banaras belongs to Jonathan Duncan. 

31. (c) The Battle of Plassey occurred in 1757. The Battle of Wandiwash occurred in 1760. The treaty of Allahabad held in 1765. Abolition of dual Government in Bengal took place in 1772. 

32. (d) The Hundis were prevalent in Mughal India. So only R is the correct statement. 

33. (b) Balaji Vishwanath (1713–20), Bajirao I – (1720–40), Balaji Bajirao (1740–61), Madhavrao – (1761–72). 

34. (d) Maharaja Jai Singh built observatories at five places; Delhi, Mathura, Jaipur, Ujjain and Varanasi. Jai Singh was a great astrologer. 

35. (a) The Barrackpur Mutiny uprised in 1824. Behrampur Revolt took place in 1857. The Santhal Revolt uprised in 1855. The Vellore Mutiny fired on 1806. 

36. (a) The Christian Missionaries supported for the secular westernized education in India. 

37. (a) Under the Mahalwari system, the land revenue was periodically revised. 

38. (a) Modern and reformist ideas spread among the mass of people, in India, primarily through Indian languages. 

39. (a) Subsidiary Alliance system was introduced by Lord Wellesley. He introduced the civil services in India. 

40. (a) The administrative policies of the East India Company, in India, during 1757 to 1857, underwent frequent changes according to the British needs. 

41. (a) Cornwallis, who established Indian Police followed and modernised old Indian system of ‘thanas’ because there was not developed yet police system in Britain and in this matter India became ahead of it. 

42. (a) The British promised not to interfere in the internal affairs of the protected states under the Subsidiary Alliance but they seldom keep it. The Alliance also led to the disbandment of the armies of the protected states.

 43. (b) Permanent settlement was introduced in India in 1793, by the Governor General of Bengal Lord Cornwallis. It was introduced in Bihar, Bengal, and Odisha. Basically settlement was the agreement between the East India Company and the Bengali landlords to fix revenues from land. The settlement was for 5 years. 

44. (c) Martanda Verma was the founder of the Indian Hindu feudal kingdom of Travancore. He ruled from 1729 till his death 1758. He is usually, credited as the founder of "Kingdom of Travancore". He fought numerous battles against European Dutch, though East India Company had helped in the battles. 

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48. (a) With the acquisition of Diwani of Bengal the company directly organized the ‘drain of wealth’ as labeled by Dadabhai Naoroji. 

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50. (a) In the 18th century, the kukis had moved to Manipur. The British policy of employing coolie labor during the First World War adversely affected their agriculture as most of them were forced to work as coolies and hence agriculture was neglected.

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52. (a) The revolt did not spread to all parts of the country. Nor was it supported by all groups and sections of the Indian society. South and West India remained largely outside the fold of the revolt. Many Indian rulers refused to help the rebels and some were openly hostile to the rebels and helped the British in suppressing the revolt. The middle and upper classes and the modern educated Indians also did not support the revolt. 

53. (b) The Doctrine of Lapse was an annexation policy purportedly devised by Lord Dalhousie. According to Hindu law, an individual or a ruler without natural heirs could adopt a person who would then have all the personal and political rights of a son. Dalhousie asserted the paramount power’s right of approving such adoptions and of acting at discretion in their absence in the case of dependent states. Annexation in the absence of a natural or adopted heir was enforced in the cases of Satara (1848), Jaitpur and Sambalpur (1849), Baghat (1850), Chota Udaipur (1852), Jhansi (1853), and Nagpur (1854).